A discussion of modern versus traditional psychometrics as applied to personality assessment scales

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-103

  Reise, Steven P ^a   Henson, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ANALYTIC METHOD; APTITUDE; EVALUATION; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; LICENSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCHOOL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0141509051     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327752JPA8102_01     Document Type: Review

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